Personal Narrative: My Interview With Ashley Porras

I had the pleasure of interviewing Javita Fizer MSN, RN, FNP-BC. She 's currently employed at a federally qualified health center (FQHC). According to J.F. she practiced as a registered nurse (RN) for ten years before becoming an advance practice registered nurse (APRN). She has been a APRN since 2014 and has worked in inpatient and acute care settings. Recently she began working in a primary care setting and made it clear that this is her comfort zone. J.F. has been practicing as a APRN for two years and she places herself as a novice in her role. When asked about the single-most important factor in successfully transitioning from expert staff nurse to beginning level APRN, J.F. mentioned clinical experience and knowing limitations. She

I interviewed my wife, Jael Dimich. I choose her because she left a high paying job to go back to school to become a nurse. She wanted to become a nurse after traveling for three months in Argentina and realizing there are people that continue to be suppressed by their economic background and social opportunities. That experience inspired in her the desire to help people in her career.

My chosen career is a registered nurse with a specialty in neonatal medicine. I am very passionate about helping others and learning how the human body all works together as a coordinated system. Currently I work as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) where I assist elderly residents with tasks that vary from getting dressed to making sure they are as comfortable as possible. While I thoroughly enjoy working with all of the residents at the nursing home, I am ready for a new challenge. I would like to gain more knowledge in order to help even more people with a wide variety of issues. I am interested to see what it takes to move up the career ladder in the nursing field. As well as what to expect as far as education requirements, salary, and the outlook of nursing jobs. In order to learn more about registered nursing I have scheduled an interview with Stacy Helmuth, a registered nurse at Shawnee Mission Medical Center.

Ashley is a nurse practitioner at the hospital. She must care for patients that she is assigned to. Ashley has been employed for eight months at the hospital. She had previously went to a two-year nursing program at West Penn that was 210 hours over the course of seven weeks. She had to go through a prerequisite at CCAC of two clinicals. She is planning on going back to school in the fall to get her bachelor’s degree. Her long term goals are to be admitted into PITT’s medical program to become a midwife, where you deliver babies. She looks forward to gaining more experience to

The high school began participating in this program for several years. It is a selective program and I was not surprised when she was chosen out of a large group of applicants. Through this program she has been able to vastly expand her knowledge of leadership, while working together with students from other communities. Participating in the program is one example of Alexis’s ability to look beyond the walls of the high school for opportunities. When Alexis was looking for opportunities to increase her knowledge and skills in the medical field, she again looked beyond the walls of high school. Alexis was chosen through a selective screening process to be a volunteer at St. Francis Hospital where she worked this past summer. She worked on Mondays and Fridays in the Maternity and Neonatal wings. She knew this would both fulfill her goal of increasing her medical knowledge in preparation of pursuing a career in the medical field along with giving her the ability to increase her ability to help others. I was not surprised to hear of her successful experiences and know she will be an asset to the nursing profession. Alexis is extremely well organized, and as a result, nothing in her life suffers due to her various commitments both in and outside of

My informational interview with Karissa Page was held on the 27th of September. During our conversation, the majority related to her transition from a college setting to the working world as well as her experience going into a field different from ones major in college. I sought her as my real reader because of her experience doing as such. These topics were appropriate for our conversation because Ms. Page’s field of interest is in Public Health, while I am interested in conservation biology as well as her majoring in Biology and Psychology in Undergrad, while I am going to be completing a degree in Molecular Genetics & Psychology. During our conversations I expressed my desire to learn from her post-undergrad experience.

Debby is the Chief Financial Officer of the organization I work for. My boss had also flown in to the office to support Debby at an award event for the Best CFO for Orange County, which she was nominated for. During lunch we talked briefly about Debby and the type of leader she is. Based on his feedback and my first interactions with her during this visit, I was very impressed. I asked my boss during our 1:1 meeting if he thought she would be willing to do an interview with me for class. He said he thought she would be and said he would ask her during his 1:1 session later that week with her (My boss reports to Debby). He came back later that week and let me know that she was very excited that I had asked and said she was waiting for me to schedule something on her calendar.

I began my first day at Harbin Ophthalmology on August 10th, so far that first day has been the most eventful. I walked in, introduced myself, and was given a tour by a Technician named Carmen. As we walked around the office I was introduced to many people - most of which I’ve memorized their names. I was given a locker to keep my belongings and shown how what their process is for getting patients through. No one was exactly sure what they needed me to do that first day so much of my time was spent shadowing Carmen as she was examining patients. Forty minutes after I had arrived the Office Manager Stacy met with me to discuss what I would be doing, how long I would be interning with them, and what hours I would be working everyday.

The lights were low, and the music was high. We were all dancing. Suddenly my boyfriend James yells my name, “Ariana” in a panic. My other friends were also running around frantically. Everything was in slow motion as I see people dressed in all white rampaging the crowd. Then, it all goes black.

Having this interview with Rebecca Claus has really informed me about teaching and what is actually involved. It gave me insight about how the information I am currently learning will actually be used everyday in my teaching career. I found it interesting when I learned that they are in a new series, but it does not match with the curriculum. I found it helpful that she told me that I as a future educator I should observe as many classroom as I can. This interview helped me grow as a future educator by providing me with details from an actual teacher who has been teaching for many years and has seen education change so much in that time. It has taught me to have good communication with parents and some ways that she keeps open communication

Currently, she is trying to find a job related to her career. This has to be a part-time job, according to her class schedule, in this way she will not have to drop or blunder any of her classes. Now, Angela is taking basic classes at National Park College in order to pursue her career. Also, she is very ambitious, this is the reason why she is planning to enroll in the Certified Assistant Nurse program in this year. In this way, she will be getting familiar with her future career field. Of course, she will be able to have a well-paid job too. Afterward, Angela will be a Registered Nurse. She already pictures herself as a Registered Nurse, this is for real her main goal. In addition to this, she would love to be working at the hospital once she has graduated from college that will be in three or four years.

I met with Amy Winters last week and with Thomas Lanza today to discuss the student’s behavior and possibilities to get them on board. We had some good discussions and the message from both of them was to have rules in place and follow through with the consequences (they might not be the same for all students). I will try to meet with Amy tomorrow to discuss the rules and consequences for the children. I also called some parents last week and had some success. Some parents could not be reached and did not call me back (i.e Isaiah and Jacob the students who disrupt the class the most).

I stared at my computer screen with great scrutiny as my right hand clutched the slim white mouse resting beneath it. My index finger clicked repetitively at the webpage’s refresh button. My eyes were fixed on a set of numbers stretched across the screen that kept jumping with every tap of the mouse. Click. 99,992. Click. 99,993. Click. 99,998. My heart was racing. Click. 99,999. I tapped the refresh button one last time and held my breath. The number 100,000 popped up on my computer screen, and the moment that I had worked so hard for had finally arrived. In just a year and a half, I had managed to accumulate 100,000 subscribers for my YouTube channel, titled “Nicole Renée,” along with over six million total video views. Posting videos on YouTube started out as just a hobby, but as time went on and I gained more experience with video production, it has allowed

Beautiful, amazing, wonderful, kind, imaginative, smart, and intriguing are all adjectives I can use to describe my best friend, Claudia Marques. We met last year at the beginning of school, when I used to go to the public school in our area. At first we were wary of each other, mostly because we were competing with one another. Our competition was to be better than one another at volleyball. I was trying to achieve my teammates respect, and since Claudia was the best player, I thought if I were better, I might gain their respect. Throughout the season we talked a little bit, but never got necessarily close. I was always keeping her at arm's lengths. This was because I thought Claudia was always a tad bit strange. These first months of noticing

I thought this interview went really well and I got a lot out of it. Samantha is someone that I really look up to because she is involved in so many different things around campus and always brings positive energy into everything that she does. If she was asked the same questions that we are asked every single day in regard to her leadership, she would put up all ten fingers for every question. I really admire how Sam conducts herself on a daily basis.